Present: Julia Bondanella, Geoffrey Conrad (Chair), James Craig, Dan Dinnsen, Alex Dzierba, James Franklin, Tom Gieryn, Steven Girvin, Noretta Koertge, Dale McFadden, Ted Widlanski

1. The College Policy Committee would like to express its appreciation for the work of Acting Dean Hanson over the past year. He confronted sometimes thorny and unpleasant situations, took them in hand, and worked openly and well with the CPC. We appreciated the time and effort he spent to keep us informed, especially his thoughtful preparations for meeting with us. We also believe that he took important steps to strengthen and improve the College. We all look forward to working with him in the future in other settings.

Dean Hanson joined us at 9:00 a.m. to bring us a series of updates:

2. Dean Hanson first addressed several staffing issues.

(a) He announced that Linda Smith (Psychology) has accepted the position of Associate Dean for Undergraduate education and will officially join the College staff on July 1, 2000. She and Michele Moody-Adams are already working on the transition.

(b) Dean Subbaswamy is now interviewing candidates for the position of Associate Dean of Graduate Education.

(c) The College has mostly completed making the appointments or reappointments of directors and chairs. Three appointments remain to be considered. The question of faculty consultation in the selection of new chairs was raised.

(a) The investigation of the tampering with a tenure dossier is nearly complete at the College level. The report is being reviewed by University Counsel. It will subsequently be presented to the individuals involved for their replies. The next step in this procedure is to present the final report to the Dean of the Faculties for a determination on whether to proceed any further, and if so, how.
The College will ask departments to review their security measures for protecting materials dealing with the evaluation of faculty and staff.

(b) Because of the growth of enrollments in the College and a more stable fiscal situation, the hiring rate is higher than it has been over the last several year. Instead of replacing only 1 out of every 2 faculty lost, the rate this year was 2 hires for every 3 losses. The rate of hires at the senior or associate level was higher than in past years. This year about half of the 35 new hires came from the upper levels. Hiring will probably continue at this rate into the near future, unless there are drastic changes in undergraduate enrollment.

(c) Dean Hanson noted that the situation surrounding Professor Murray Sperber raises issues of academic freedom.

(a) This year, for the third consecutive year, the College budget should be in the black. The calculations of indirect income in June will determine whether or not the College will break even or be further into the black. With help from the campus, the College's accumulated debt has been erased. The fiscal outlook seems better, though it is still tight, and it should give the new dean some room for new initiatives. Some budgetary problems remain at the campus level.

(b) Dean Hanson reviewed several salary issues. The College had approximately 4.1 % to distribute for 2000-2001. One percent went to the equity adjustments. This year was the second for the adjustments for women and minorities; it was the first year for adjustments for majority males. Another 1% was used for administrative salaries and meeting outside offers; departments that ranked high in the CIP process also received some additional funds for salary increases. IU has become a target for raiding, but the efforts to meet outside offers were quite successful. Only 2% remained for faculty salary increases.

Dean Hanson noted that the principle of merit increases has begun to be applied to clerical staff. An equity process for professional staff was completed this year. He also noted that the College will be establishing regular procedures for reviewing the performance of its professional staff.

This year, the Trustees' actions on salary increases and in setting tuition brought the two into closer alignment. There is no formal tie between the two items, but depending on the state appropriations and tuition increases, mandated salary increases can require internal reallocation.

(c) For the coming year, the fiscal outlook seems decent, although tuition and the number of students are always one key to the College's financial condition. Dean Hanson sees a potential for growth in indirect income with a renewed emphasis on grants. He also emphasized that fund-raising is absolutely central to the College's fiscal health. At the end of this five-year fund-raising campaign, the College exceeded its goal of $30,000,000 by $20,000,000, but the College will continue to pursue outside funding in a vigorous fashion. He observed that an independent development office has worked very well for the College as well as some of the other schools.

Dean Hanson informed us that fund-raising has been significant in our ability to retain faculty with outside offers. He noted a large increase in the number of endowed chairs and professorships: twenty-six chairs were newly endowed during the campaign (at one million each), and 32 professorships were newly endowed (at $500,000 each). Income from the endowments support salary, research expenses, fellowships, etc.